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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06121-5 We also find that the probability distribution of the number of heralds per detected fluorescence photon supports the view that a single photon can upon absorption drive the subsequent energy transfer and fluorescence emission and hence, by...

This is what is now smiling back at me. from this thing I found in a one gallon pot at my favorite local garden center nursery, Sep 2014. I wrapped the stem with self-amalgamating silicone tape and closely coiled heavy wire over the region I intended to bend. It snapped like a candy cane...

I”ve posted much of this in bits and pieces as part of discussions in other BNutter’s threads. In this thread, I am simply trying to assemble the whole history for my reference and for noobs to see an example of how the bonsai adventure goes sometimes. For the rest of you, I am always receptive...

I’m looking for help to figure out why my a.p. Shin deshojo is so difficult to propagate by air layering. Over the last 7 years or so, I’ve attempted something like 20, give or take, air layers of my a.p. Shin deshojo landscape specimen. Except for a couple of occasions that the girdle was...

The Tree Thread is an excellent example of how it would be beneficial if BVF's OP (with the rules for the thread) would appear at the top of every displayed page - a sticky post. Possible, or not a Xenfro feature?

This is what is left of a 9-10 foot tall Sekkan Sugi Cryptomeria that I chopped down to about 2.5 feet about a week ago. There are only the 3 little bits of green, one on each of 3 separate stems/trunks. The roots have been left in the ground, undisturbed. What do you suppose will happen from here?

I really like Eastern white pine foliage, but the common opinion is that they are not worth the effort. Maybe so, but I found one of the miniature variety, 'Minima', that has needle lengths about half the norm for the species. This is the earliest photo I have of it though I've been fiddling...

A friend (Arlene) gave this juniper to me in the fall of 2012. I believe it is a juniper chinensis ‘Blue Point’. Certainly not the best thing I’ve seen for bonsai, but I figured, “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”. The following spring, March 2013, I transplanted it from the box store...

This (UR2) is the acer palmatum air layer clone that I used for the thread Regarding Wound Healing. In the end of my postings to that thread, I showed a slanted cut chop that eliminated one of the two apical branches. I made that choice because I decided that this view, in which the chop is on...

Back in the spring of 2006 I found this volunteer thuja in my yard (a seed dropped by a passing bird or planted by a squirrel the previous fall; I don’t know who was responsible for it and they're not talkin'). I dug it and popped it into a pot of official ‘potting soil’ (that is what it said on...

This is a dwarf cultivar Fuji cherry (prunus incisa) that I acquired as a bare root plant from a local garden nursery in the spring of 2013. I now realize that I might have accomplished the root pad development and the size reduction in just two seasons instead taking three years as I have...

I came across this little Iseli grown p. parviflora ‘Aoi’ (Japanese white pine) in the garden center of a local Ace hardware store. It happened to be a ‘super Saturday’ at the time, so I got it for 20% less than the $70 tagged price – a great bargain! It has an inch-or-so caliper (a bit above...

I have an acer palmatum trunk from which I air-layered the top. The following winter it suffered some rather severe dieback. The pattern is, in itself, rather interesting. Notice how the upper branches are green all around the branch collar and that the bark remains green below. The dieback is a...

Bowl by a local potter.

I've long found it curious that acer rubrum is known as 'red maple'. It has green leaves! So what's the deal? Now I know why:

When I bought this wisteria in August 2008 it was a spindly half-inch whip strapped to a bamboo pole in a one gal plastic pot. I promptly put it in an 8 inch plastic pot of bark and garden soil. In April 2011 I slipped it into a 15 inch diameter pot and returned it to a back corner of our...

I purchased Mugo #2 at a local nursery’s ‘lemon sale’ for $18 in 2009. It is a mugo ‘pumilo’ and was never a particularly attractive tree. Like most pumilos I’ve seen, it is basically a stick with a whorl from a knob on top. Over time since 2009, I learned about growing pines and tried to apply...

UGb4_2015-03-11 by 0soyoung posted Apr 2, 2015 at 9:57 PM This is a group of 5 air layer clones of the same green acer palmatum as gave rise first to UR1 featured in ‘Mine’s Not Big Enough’) and to UR2 which I showed in a response to the Nebari development thread. These 5 clones of that same...

This is a mugo pine that was cultivated to be a landscape feature plant. It was pruned for several years, by a commercial grower, to have a puck-shaped canopy atop a bare trunk. Consequently, all the branches originate at the top of the trunk. I bought it in 2011 just to have a tree with a...

About a month ago I found these two volunteer coastal Douglas firs near my doorstep. I put their roots in a little ball of damp sphagnum and crammed that into these little accent pots, along with a few prills of Osmocote. Aren't they cute? . It is hard to believe that they will become 80+ foot...

This 'tree' is the first of four generations of air layer clones I have. They were the stimulus for most of what I've learned about how trees work. So, while I have no regrets, that process left me with a few 'challenges' like this one. I think there is something to be learned just by trying. On...

I just noticed that if I highlight a statement in a post and then let the cursor hover over it, a little 'Reply' icon appears. Click it and my reply begins with a quote of only what was highlighted. Much easier than trying to delete as we had to do with 1.x :cool:

Volunteer trees, that is. Among many volunteer trees I’ve potted and grown, I started this group of three Norway maples in 2010 after having found them sprouted in my yard early in the spring of 2008. Sentimentality is the primary reason I maintain it - the mother trees are a few hundred feet...

One of the more popular myths about air layering is that ‘bridging’ of a girdle is caused by the callus pushing/growing downward from above rejoining with the callus below. If you have ever tried to make an approach graft without first exposing the cambium you would find this idea preposterous...